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The art of writing a good joke welds a lot of power. A good joke can drive the plot of a TV sit-com, can spark political controversy … or, in this ...
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 06:25
Dmae Roberts spent a month in New Zealand and recorded sounds and interviewed people along the way leading up to the world premiere of "The Return ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2017
- Length: 10:27
The Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel holds renown for being the only outdoor bonspiel in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The ice is bad, the c...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 05:06
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Listen to SONNY FALCON a.k.a “The Fajita King,” produced by the talented team of teachers at the STORIES FROM DEEP IN THE HEART’s SUMMER INSTITUTE.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 04:25
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
From salt-crystal lamps to popping wheelies artist Kate Walchuk waxes nostalgic.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 07:36
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 2
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 07:33
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:32
Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 1
The musical history of MICHAEL JACKSON. The music of THE JACKSON FIVE (J5), THE JACKSONS and solo music of MICHAEL JACKSON are covered in this thre...
- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 55:13
A love letter to a super-horse.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KUT, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 30, 2011
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 5
Nancy Faust, Chicago White Sox ballpark organist for 41 seasons, is retiring at the end of this season, bringing to an end an era of baseball organ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Vocalo.org, KUT, and KUOW
- Added: Sep 22, 2010
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 4
Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 2
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 06:56
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary with June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, rare Huckleberry Hound.
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 52:33
Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2009
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 3
An ancient pastime explored in the lives, lore and literature of anglers.
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 12
Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:58
When TV writers went on strike in 2007, the couch potatoes got active. We look back at the writers strike, and see how the largest political force ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
Veteran garage sale hunter Steve Fry takes us on a Saturday morning tour of garage sales in his neck of the woods outside Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Added: Dec 10, 2008
- Length: 05:04
Here's a non-narrated tour through a dozen of Chicago's parks at the height of summer, when the ice cream trucks can barely keep up with demand.
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jan 28, 2008
- Length: 16:56
- Purchases: 2
